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Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocols, and their Commentaries
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Victims of Armed Conflicts
Geneva Conventions, 1949
Ratification / Accession:
14.12.1961
Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
28.05.1986
Additional Protocol (II) to the Geneva Conventions, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
28.05.1986
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
Ratification / Accession:
03.08.1990
Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 2000
Ratification / Accession:
31.01.2005
Reservation / Declaration:
31.01.2005
Methods and Means of Warfare
Geneva Protocol on Asphyxiating or Poisonous Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods, 1925
Ratification / Accession:
09.12.1986
Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, 1972
Ratification / Accession:
25.04.1975
Convention prohibiting Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 1980
Ratification / Accession:
27.03.1989
CCW Protocol (I) on Non-Detectable Fragments, 1980
Ratification / Accession:
27.03.1989
CCW Protocol (III) prohibiting Incendiary Weapons, 1980
Ratification / Accession:
27.03.1989
Convention prohibiting Chemical Weapons, 1993
Ratification / Accession:
14.05.1998
Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 1997
Ratification / Accession:
25.09.1998
Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008
Ratification / Accession:
10.07.2017
Naval and Airwarfare
Cultural Property
Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954
Ratification / Accession:
17.04.2012
Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1954
Ratification / Accession:
17.04.2012
Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property, 1999
Ratification / Accession:
17.04.2012
Criminal Repression
Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998
Ratification / Accession:
22.01.2002
Other treaties relating to IHL
Convention prohibiting environmental modification techniques (ENMOD), 1976
Ratification / Accession:
30.06.1986
OAU Convention on Mercenaries, 1977
Ratification / Accession:
03.05.1982
Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 2006
Signature:
19.03.2010
Arms Trade Treaty, 2013
Ratification / Accession:
07.11.2016
Related databases
Customary IHL database
ICRC National Implementation Database of IHL
Reference documents
States party to the main treaties
IHL_and_other_r... (464.61 kb)
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Map of States party to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols
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2016-icrc-annua... (1.57 MB)
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